News Guardians of the Galaxy Cosmic Rewind attraction confirmed for Epcot

[GlacierGlacier]

I hate to be the bearer of bad news but, I saw a foundation crack already and have been told that the giant Groot will be in Disco Mode when it opens...

Groot is always in Disco mode

 

[sedati]

It’s a roller coaster.
It has to go up.

Yes, but in this age of launches, going this tall is unnecessary unless there is an element that will utilize the building's full height.

 

[The Empress Lilly]

Well, it doesn't have to, but if it doesn't, then it's just a very fast peoplemover.

As a fun fact, Imagination is a coaster.

Technically GotG is the second FW coaster.

 

[180º]

Mack has done free spinning and now a “controlled” spin on Time Traveler. That control is more limiting or regulating the spin, not programming it.

Yup. If I understand it correctly, the Mack spin is controlled by something akin to brakes on your car. It can slow, stop, or free the spin. Whereas with GOTG, the need is for omnimover-type spinning, the kind where you can be pointed in a certain direction or spun under its own power. Gringotts did this, right? Was that Dynamic Structures/Attractions?

 

[larryz]

As a fun fact, Imagination is a coaster.

Technically GotG is the second FW coaster.

Hmmm... I thought @marni1971 called it a modified omnimover...

 

[marni1971]

Hmmm... I thought @marni1971 called it a modified omnimover...

It was designed as a coaster in parts but that didn’t work so it became an Omni. Hybrid Omni to be picky since the cars didn’t keep the same distance from each other during the ride.

 

[cjkeating]

Mack has done free spinning and now a “controlled” spin on Time Traveler. That control is more limiting or regulating the spin, not programming it.

They have controlled/programmed spin on Euro Mir (which opened in 1997) along with the more recent Cobras Curse and possibly more that I haven't been on.

 

[MisterPenguin]

I was joking. Love it when people take you literally.

I don't understand why you would love it for people to misunderstand you!!

 

[Haymarket2008]

A tweet (I don't remember who's account) I read recently posed an interesting discussion concerning the Guardians project. They said that internally it is viewed as the "I-4 billboard / 'appease higher management' attraction" for Epcot to get people to come to the park....so that WDI may have more creative freedom with the rest of the park. I know this is twitter, but it is something worth noting in regards to the overall bigger picture of Epcot's future.

 

[djkidkaz]

I imagine coaster track will have to go up soon so they can build the building around it, correct?

 

[ford91exploder]

Visit a modern engineering school and discover how wrong you are. Your perspectives are lagging by about a decade.

Erm No, I work with MIT and WPI students frequently and they still need to learn what can be 3D printed can not necessarily be machined from raw stock.

 

[Walt d]

I'll say this I strongly disagree with what they are doing to Epcot Center (I wanted them to go back to their roots not dumbed down "family friendly" take). However I do admire the ambition of it all. We never saw anything like this during the second half of Eisners tenure and was one of the biggest reasons I along with thousands of other shareholders voted him out.

Big scope thinking and radical redesigns are what Walt Disney was all about.

Boby ignor just like eisner wright now’

 

[The Empress Lilly]

It was designed as a coaster in parts but that didn’t work so it became an Omni. Hybrid Omni to be picky since the cars didn’t keep the same distance from each other during the ride.

Isn't a defining trait of an omnimover that all cars are linked by chain, and secondly and consequently, that they move at a consistent, identical speed?

Imagination's trains move individually, and come to a complete stop at load. Coaster trains running on a coaster track dressed as omnimover cars. WoM is an omnimover, despite the appearance of separate trains. Imagination is a coaster, despite its appearance as an omnimover.

Not that any of this is relevant beyond pernickety terminology.

 

[Animaniac93-98]

I feel like I'm the only one that likes this.........







please don't kill me

I think it would be a great addition to DHS.

But not Epcot.

 

[Animaniac93-98]

Vintage EPCOT managed to design rides with both an entrance and an exit at the pavilion's entrance, plaza, or relevant post-show.

No hikes anywhere. Unlike Soarin', Imagination, Test Track, Mission:Space, GotG, Rat.

Clowns and dwarfs making a mockery of the work of gods.

Disney's scientific surveys suggest guests hiking around will make them burn more calories and encourgae the sale of snack food and bottled water.

 

[Animaniac93-98]

I saw the construction walls in person today, and on top of the generic Disney construction quotes on most walls they had the Epcot Center logo with the number 21 on it. 2021, perhaps?

Is Epcot '21 going to be the new park name?

 

[The Empress Lilly]

I think it would be a great addition to DHS.

But not Epcot.

By and large, yes, this. If DHS can integrate a space fantasy thrill ride, it can have a space superhero thrill ride.

Although, and maybe it is entirely personal, I think Star Wars and Indiana Jones a great complementing fit to Disney, but not Marvel / Guardians. The way seeing Barbie and Teenage Mutant Turtles at Disney rubbed me like sandpaper. Muppets in between, a bit so-so.

A certain tonal, sentimental fit. I do think Iger bought Marvel precisely because it sits on an emotional tone outside of Disney's scale, that being the very point of the addition.

Also, I had a higher tolerance for outside IP when it felt more clearly as external, rather than as part of Disney as a Unilever / Procter & Gamble brands umbrella.

 

[The Empress Lilly]

Disney's scientific surveys suggest guests hiking around will make them burn more calories and encourgae the sale of snack food and bottled water.

Maybe that Na'vi mid-queue snack stand is their latest hot business model! ~:lightbulb:

 

[JustInTime]

This isn’t still a launch coaster, correct? I’m shocked we’ve gotten so little detail about the ride.

 

[Kman101]

James Gunn put out a tweet about the video. I'll try to figure out how to put a tweet in a post....